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Extending a Continent Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Olivier Vanderhaeghe Maître de Conférences Chef du département des Sciences de la Terre UMR G2R-Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I BP 239 54006 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy +33 3 83 68 47 34 C. Hibsch L. Siebenaller Stéphanie Duchêne Michel de St Blanquat LMTG, OMP Toulouse Seth Kruckenberg A. Fotiadis L. Martin Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Page 1 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ Abstract: The geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean is controlled by Cenozoic convergence between the African and Eurasian plates ( Figure 1 ). This convergence was accommodated by closure and subduction of the Tethys Ocean and development of the Alpine crustal accretionary wedge. The geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean is also marked by opening of continental and oceanic basins above retreating slabs. Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Page 2 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ Table of Contents GEOLOGY OF NAXOS IN THE EAST-MEDITERRANEAN GEODYNAMIC CONTEXT .................................................................................................................................................. 4 FIELD TRIP ............................................................................................................................ 7 Structural evolution of a crustal wedge, from accretion to collapse ........................................ 7 Metamorphic evolution of a crustal wedge, from accretion to collapse ................................... 8 Magma emplacement and detachment activity ..................................................................... 8 Fluid circulations during MCC formation ............................................................................ 8 Sedimentary record of exhumation and topographic evolution during MCC formation ........... 8 Day 1: INSIDE THE METAMORPHIC CORE ................................................................... 9 Day 2: SEDIMENTATION AND FLUID CIRCULATION DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX ...................................................................... 12 DISCUSSION OF THE DATA PRESENTED DURING THE FIELD TRIP .............................. 17 Structural evolution of a crustal wedge, from accretion to collapse ....................................... 17 Metamorphic evolution of a crustal wedge, from accretion to collapse .................................. 17 Magma emplacement and detachment activity .................................................................... 18 Fluid circulations during MCC formation ........................................................................... 18 A MODEL FOR THE THERMAL-MECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE AEGEAN CRUSTAL ACCRETIONARY WEDGE ................................................................................................... 19 References ............................................................................................................................. 21 Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Page 3 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ GEOLOGY OF NAXOS IN THE EAST- the Taurides and the Hellenides to 15-20km beneath the MEDITERRANEAN GEODYNAMIC Aegean and Cretan seas with intermediate thicknesses of CONTEXT 45km beneath Crete and 35km beneath the Cyclades (Mak- ris and Stobbe 1984). The geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean is con- trolled by Cenozoic convergence between the African and Eurasian plates ( Figure 1 ). This convergence was accom- Figure 3. Aegean Slab modated by closure and subduction of the Tethys Ocean and development of the Alpine crustal accretionary wedge. The geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean is also marked by opening of continental and oceanic basins above retreating slabs. Figure 1. Kinematics Mesozoic Cenozoic Africa Eurasia kinematics Figure 2. Geological map tomographic image of the Aegean slab (Bijwaard et al, 98) The eastern Mediterranean Cenozoic geodynamic evo- lution is characterized by convergence between the African and Eurasian lithospheric plates accommodated at the Geological map of the Mediterranean lithospheric scale, by subduction of the Aegean slab since at least the early Cenozoic and currently active along the In the eastern Mediterranean, the continuity of the high Hellenic trench (Spakman 1986) ( Figure 3 ). Southward mountainous massifs of the Hellenides in mainland Greece migration of calc-alkaline magmatism relative to the upper and the Taurides in Turkey is disrupted by the presence of plate suggests southward slab roll-back for at least a the Aegean basin ( Figure 2 ). The thickness of the conti- 1000km (Fytikas, Innocenti et al. 1984). At the crustal nental crust in this region ranges from 50-55 km beneath scale, convergence is marked by the development of the Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Page 4 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ Hellenic and Aegean accretionary wedges that are exposed Figure 4. Greece respectively in the Hellenides and in the Aegean Sea. The Hellenides are subdivided from North to South in the in- ternal and external hellenides. The internal Hellenides ex- pose the Rhodope and Pelagonian zones representing con- tinental blocks separated by the Vardar suture zone (Au- boin 1973; Bonneau 1982; Jacobshagen 1986; Papaniko- laou 1989). The external Hellenides are composed by the Pindos, Gavrovo, and Ionian zones representing sedimen- tary cover nappes overthrusting the pre-apulian zone to the south (fig. geological map of Greece). These various zones have recorded events from subduction, obduction, and crustal thickening to crustal thinning within the context of convergence between Africa and Eurasia during Tertiary times (Dewey and Sengor 1979; Bonneau and Kienast 1982; Dercourt, Zonenshain et al. 1986). In the Aegean sea, the Attic-Cycladic Massif ( Figure 4 ) forms a belt of metamorphic rocks exhumed along low- angle detachments (Lister, Banga et al. 1984). These met- amorphic rocks have first recorded an Eocene high-pres- sure/low-temperature metamorphism evidenced by blues- chist to eclogite facies (Andriessen, Boelrijk et al. 1979; Bonneau and Kienast 1982; Wijbrans and McDougall 1988; Buick and Holland 1989; Avigad and Garfunkel 1991; Keay 1998; Lips, White et al. 1998; Keay, Lister et al. 2002). The high-pressure/low-temperature metamor- phism is overprinted by a Miocene medium pressure/me- Geologic map of Greece dium temperature metamorphism evidenced by a greens- chist to amphibolite-facies locally reaching partial melting Figure 5. Aegean Sea (Jansen and Schuiling 1976; Andriessen, Boelrijk et al. 1979; Altherr, Kreuzer et al. 1982; Buick and Holland 1989; Keay 1998; Keay, Lister et al. 2001; Keay, Lister et al. 2002). North-South lithospheric section from the Hellenic trench to the Rhodope massif across the Aegean sea (same legend as Fig. 4) The island of Naxos in the Attic-Cycladic Massif ( Fig- ure 7 ) displays the most complete structural cross section of the Cyclades showing metamorphosed ante-Mesozoic rocks and Cenozoic granitoids juxtaposed to Cenozoic sediments or weakly metamorphosed rocks along detach- ment systems (Jansen 1973). Three tectonic-metamorphic units are distinguished. The upper unit, occurring structur- ally above the detachment, is composed of low-grade mar- ble, schists and serpentinites that are overlain unconform- ably by dominantly detrital Cenozoic sediments (Jansen Penrose Conference - Extending a Continent - Naxos Field Guide Page 5 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2007 Volume 27 Paper 4 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/ 1973). The middle and lower units are composed of high- Since the 1970's, numerous studies using different ge- grade metamorphic rocks located below the detachment. ochronological methods (Ar/Ar, K/Ar, Rb/Sr, Sm/Nd and The middle unit is composed of a schists and marbles se- U/Pb methods performed on various minerals) have been quence containing mafic and ultramafic boudins (Jansen carried on the metamorphic rocks of Naxos. In the lower and Schuiling 1976). The middle unit is dominated by mar- unit, the peak of the medium pressure/medium temperature bles at the top and by schists at the bottom. The lower unit metamorphism, corresponding to the onset of the partial is made of migmatites and marbles exposed in the core of melting in the core of the island, is constrained prior to an elliptical dome mantled by the metamorphic rocks of the 20-21 Ma by U/Pb dating on zircon crystals from migmatite middle unit. The structure of the island is asymmetric on samples (Keay et al. 2001, Martin et al. submitted). In the an W-E section. First, the middle unit shows a structural middle unit, the age of the medium pressure/medium tem- section of about 1km to the west and 4km to the east of the perature metamorphism is constrained after 19.9-27 Ma by dome. Second, in the western part of the island, the middle Ar/Ar dating on phengite (Wijbrans and McDougall 1988). unit is intruded by a granodiorite pluton. Whereas the migmatites of the lower unit have solely pre- served the medium pressure/medium temperature paragen- Figure 6. P-T conditions of Naxos esis, metamorphic zircon rims yield scattered U-Pb ages around 50 Ma (Keay
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